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Released
1957 · FILM

The Big Land

Oh, you boys can sleep as late as you like in the morning... so long as you get up for breakfast. Five o'clock.

Directed by
Runtime
92 min
RomanceWestern

Synopsis

Back home in Texas following the Civil War, former Confederate officer Chad Morgan (Alan Ladd) leads a cattle drive to Missouri, assuring fellow ranchers that their stock will bring $10 a head at auction. Instead, ruthless cattle baron Brog (Anthony Caruso) has scared off all competition and offers much less.

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Principal cast & crew: 17

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Thomas ReillyShot by John F SeitzScored by David Buttolph

Also known as

  • Herrscher über weites Landde
  • La gran tierraes
  • Les Loups dans la valléefr
  • Orizzonti lontaniit

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